After a busy Bank Holiday, Monday Kay and Bekah Granger finally put their feet up in the garden of their brand new Plymouth café.

It’s just part of their quirky and intriguing venue – The Mad Merchant Coffee House – which will provide hot drinks, art and much more.

“It’s been a long time coming,” said Kay, who is running the venue alongside her daughter. “Because it’s a listed building, the planning application took a while, so we had a lot of time to think about what we wanted to do with it.

“We’re using an original espresso as our main coffee but we also have a limited summer edition coffee called Unkle Funka which has its own unique flavour.

“We’re looking to introduce some more awesome flavours in the next few weeks.”

The cafe has a book shop upstairs (Image: Richard Amofa)

Take a walk up their swirling staircase meanwhile, and you’ll find book shop and space where people can work on their arts.

In addition to a combination of hard and paperbacks, vinyl CD’s adorn the walls, as indeed, does a vinyl player that visitors can use as they please.

Bekah said: “I’ve always had a dream to create a coffee place that’s accessible for artists and for the place to be a hub for them.

“We have books here too, and it’s a place where like-minded people can talk and express themselves. If they want to put their art up on the wall that’s totally cool.

“I want it to be like The Forest café in Edinburgh, which had a vibe where people could play on the piano whenever they wanted to and was just a really cool place to hang out.

“Over time we’d love to build that sort of thing. Perhaps get poets involved or even amateur dramatics looking for a space to practice or even perform.

The Sanremo Cafe Racer is one of the best coffee machines in the UK (Image: Richard Amofa)

The idea fits both of their backgrounds, with Kay previously owning and events company in the Midlands and has a history in community drama, where she and her husband would perform pantomimes in local schools. Meanwhile, Bekah studied art at University in Brighton.